[Verse 2]
I gotta say I'm in the mood for a little bit more of that
I mean I'm saying what kind of deal, just two days?
I need me at least 'bout four of them, more of them
More you on me, on us
Just tell me you want me, yeah
Monday and I'll be at your door, ready to take her place
Ready to give you, what you've been missin' on weekdays
What you've been waitin' for
10:30, no later than
Drop them drawers, I know what you want

About “The Weekend”

The song serves to empower women above the idea of a man as the center to all of their actions. In positioning all the women in this one man’s life as being aware of what they want from him, it diffuses his lies to them and makes him look like the foolish one.

The rather artistic and simple music video (released on December 21, 2017) is directed by Solange and features SZA in different settings moving to the song. The video also features words at the bottom of the screen that are not lyrics, but are still important to the song’s theme:

One opted out
An imbalance of power, shifted the whole tide
It waved
And waved

The cover art for the single was designed by SZA’s friend Sage Adams and is inspired by Henri Matisse’s “The Dance.”

What have the artists said about the song?

Time-sharing a man is real AF. If we're all being honest there's very few men that are just dating one woman. I think, low-key, the internet makes it so difficult [to be in relationships] because we're taking in so much information. There's always new, new, new, more, more, more. Having one person seems like a restriction, like a limitation. Everyone's used to being overstimulated.
I feel like men kind of do this thing where they don’t wanna tell anyone about [who they're with], because they don't want to lose the opportunity to potentially call you if they needed to. Not saying that they would, but they need the option. So in this song, I'm opting in. Like, I know you have a bunch of girls, probably. Maybe you're not being honest with me — I just know that you have mad girls — and I still don't care, because I didn't want to be your girlfriend anyway! I'm not internalizing the way that you're acting as a disrespect towards me, it doesn't make me any less because you're not my boyfriend. And like, you're not her boyfriend, and you're not her boyfriend. You're just out here wildin'.

What does this song mean to you

Why does she repeat "We got bright ideas" at the end of the song?

SZA repeats this line in the outro to keep the theme of woman empowerment going.

What has the media said about the song?

In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #32 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:

The highest-charting single from 2017’s brilliant debut LP CTRL, ‘The Weekend’ finds contemporary R&B singer SZA winding her lyrics like vines around and through ThankGod4Cody’s wiry beats as she inverts a classic genre trope: a player, and the women who love him. Rather than competing for or dumping him, SZA chooses comfortable non-monogamy (‘My man is my man is your man / Her, this her man too’) — thoroughly modern and thoroughly rational, and a relatively new perspective for the mainstream. She worked with Solange on the visual for the song; a narrow-minded industry might pit one young star against the other, but they choose to work together and uplift one another, opting out of competition in parallel with the song’s narrator and enriching their own unique artistic visions in the process.